Posted on 10/22/2006 5:32:49 AM PDT by SJackson
The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, recently issued a decree to its supporters: Kill at least one American in the next two weeks "using a sniper rifle, explosive or whatever the battle may require."
Well, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, I am an American too. Count me as the one of those you have asked your supporters to kill.
I am not alone. There are thousands of Muslims with me in Las Vegas, and many more millions in America, who are proud Americans and who are ready to face your challenge. You hide in your caves and behind the faces of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. You don't show your faces and you have no guts to face Muslims. You thrive on the misery of thousands of Muslim youth and children who are victims of despotism, poverty and ignorance.
During the past two decades, you have brought nothing but shame and disaster to your religion and your world.
You said "not to drop your weapons," not to let "your enemies rest until each one of you kills at least one American within a period that does not exceed 15 days."
But I invite you to surrender, to seek forgiveness from God almighty for the senseless killing you and your supporters are involved in and repent for everything you have done.
You say that the word of God is the highest. Yes, it is. But you are not worthy of it. You have abandoned God and you have started worshipping your own satanic egos that rejoice at the killing of innocent people. You don't represent Muslims or, for that matter, any decent human being who believes in the sanctity of life.
Many among us American Muslims have differences with our administration on domestic and foreign issues, just like many other Americans do. But the plurality of opinions does not mean that we deprive ourselves of the civility that God demands from us. America is our home and will always be our home. Its interests are ours, and its people are ours. When you talk of killing Americans, you first have to kill 6 million or so Muslims who will stand for every American's right to live and enjoy the life as commanded by God.
BY GROWING a beard, shouting some religious slogans and misquoting and misusing some verses of the divine scriptures, you cannot incite Muslims to do things that are contrary to our religion. Yes, you even fail to understand the basic Islamic principles of life and living. Islam demands peace in all aspects of life. Islam demands respect for life. Islam demands justice.
What you are doing in Iraq, Afghanistan, India or other parts of the world is anti-human and anti-divine. You are an enemy of Islam as much as you are an enemy of America. You must understand that God who entrusted you with life is the same God who spelled His spirit in every human being regardless of his or her religion or ethnicity or nationality or status. You are violating Him.
We feel totally disgusted with your action and we condemn you without any reservation. Don't come to our mosques to preach this hatred. Don't visit our Islamic centers to spill the blood of innocents. Don't think that just because we share the same religion, we would show some sympathy to you. You are not of us. You don't belong to the religion whose followers are trying to live a peaceful life for themselves and others serving the divine according to their understanding. In our understanding of faith. You appear as anti-divine and anti-human. We reject you now as we rejected you yesterday.
There is nothing common between you and us.
We stand for life, you want to destroy it.
We accept the divine scheme of diversity in the world and you want to impose conformity.
We respect every human being simply because he or she is a creation of the divine, and you hate people based on their religion and ethnicity.
We support freedom and liberty and justice, and you promote bigotry, murder and strangulation.
You will never be able to find a sympathetic voice among us. Our differences with others will never lead us to do things that are fundamentally wrong in our faith, i.e. taking the lives of innocent people and killing others because they are different.
Last September 11, when you were hiding in your caves, we were out in the streets paying tribute to those whom you killed because you failed to see the beauty of life. We will condemn you once again the same way we have been doing ever since 9/11 because we are Muslim Americans.
The writer is director of the Islamic Society of Nevada. Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, US Department of State.
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Posted on 07/13/2006 4:51:11 AM CDT by Clive
I've got a couple of hundred more. You just need to look.
But alas, I believe only about 2-percent of Muslims, including American Muslims, think this way
Source?
Thanks... and I will look.
A couple of Catholic cardinals have taken up the theme, as well as Protestant bishops, including the Archbishop of Canterbury. Jack Straw seems to have reversed his former "muslimophilia." A couple of Australian leaders have spoken out. And more Muslims -- like this one -- have spoken out (something lots on FR were screaming for!).
Every Muslim I've know before, and since 9-11, has felt this way. They are sick of the nutcases in the ME but they're also afraid of them... All of us need to fight radical Islam - Christians, Jews and Muslims alike. The fruit of the radical Muslim tree is evil. Great post. Thanks.
Every Muslim I've know before, and since 9-11, has felt this way. They are sick of the nutcases in the ME but they're also afraid of them... All of us need to fight radical Islam - Christians, Jews and Muslims alike. The fruit of the radical Muslim tree is evil. Great post. Thanks.
I want them to do more than stand up. They need to rise up in arms to drive them out.
You mean like what's happening in Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Yemen, Algeria.....?
A divided house won't stand.
The world or KOSMOS in Greek has been discussed rigorously in Scripture. The Kosmos is the work of bringing a chaos into order. Whenever a work is done to bring chaos into order through faith in Christ, i.e. a faith that has been provided by God Himself, then a good work which will prevail is possible.
Any good work made without such faith might provide a temporary relief, or temprary order, but is parlayed into evil by the Adversary.
If an entire religious system is void of faith through God's methods, i.e. faith through Christ, then any combination of good or evil might evolve, but none of it for an enduring good, worthy of trust eternally. For example, a person may identify evil, independent of any divine involvement. That person might take action to perform a good work, again without any divine involvement. The works might provide incredibly profound relief in physical or even thinking aspects, but only temporarily. That temporariness might last moments, months, decades, even a couple of centuries, but not eternally.
Advocates of comparative religion are very correct when they observe the relative sameness between various religions. Even in Christianity, if the believer fails to remain in fellowship with God in their study of Scripture, one can either become legalistic or lascivious, neither based upon faith through Christ.
There is one very difference in Christianity from other religions in that it does have a true faithful object of worship and when a person places faith in God through Christ, the believer is truly indwelt by God in different persons of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Without that indwelling, further sanctification of the believer isn't possible, nor is any good work perofrmed by the person good for an eternal time.
With a plurality of volition throughout the universe, every combination of good and evil is possible, but none good eternally without faith though Christ.
In the US, many people have become comfortable in their relative physical security, national legalism, and scholarly observations of avoiding extreme situations associated with later suffering. Accordingly, from a fleshly and soulish perspective, void of spiritual regeneration, one is tempted to believe the solution to one false religion's war upon all other 'infidels' is simply to appeal to peace in calm and order. Without faith in Christ, even that course is only temporary and very worldly, but nonetheless, without faith in Christ, will ultimately be found good for nothingness.
Just as foolish as the article appears, so too is an attempt to target religion or encourage international new world order over a simple return to God through faith in Christ in all things, all times, and all works. Such efforts might produce local good and temprary relief, but will ultimately not persevere Divine Judgment.
Kinda cuts both ways. On one hand, the article is directed against those who favor killing Americans. On the other hand, the writer apparently believes that the only argument he can make against killing Americans is that some Americans are Muslim.
Islam provides a counterfeit Christianity, picking and choosing many soulish aspects of faith, but lacking faith through Christ. No matter how devoted, the regeneration of Spirit by God only occurs through faith in Christ.
All the other consequences are merely physical and soulish void of the Divine Spirit, but pregnant for malevolent deception.
He did not denounce islam, he denounced the uses and interpretation of islamic teaching that power the terrorists and allow their followers to do insane things in the name of a god that he continues to believe in. Asking someone to give up his or her religion is a tall order no matter what the religion is or is made to be.
That said, I would like to know just when this was written, what has been written since, and what reactions it has caused....my own problem with islam, of moderate muslims, is that the followers (today) simply cannot rid themselves of the underlying attitudes toward 'others' and that those self justifying prejudices always seem to be hiding just below the surface - no matter how much contact they have with non-muslims.
See at another thread, "Wafe Sultan" (travels to Israel) regarding indoctrination and how long it might take to reverse it.
It's easy to write anything you want. I'm saiting to see what they DO.
"I'm saiting" also.
Actually this is worlds apart, in both tone and substance, from the mewling, vague or pro forma "condemnations" of terrorism issued by CAIR and their ilk.
His illness is islam, and it is completely self-induced.
See, there are moderate muslims in the world. If these guys are for real, they should be getting media airtime, instead of those terrorist cheerleaders CAIR.
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